Mata Hari

The headdress and breast cups from an exotic dance costume that reputedly belonged to executed World War I spy Mata Hari are to be sold at auction next month, a spokeswoman for Sotheby's said. The costume-jewelry headdress and matching breast cups of gilded tin plate filigree belong to Lula Adams, a former clown, who bought them in France in 1922. The items are expected to fetch between $215 and $360 when auctioned Feb. 5, the spokeswoman said. She said there is no way to verify...

By John M. Glionna and Youkyung Lee, TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS: Los Angeles Times | October 8, 2008

She's accused of being the "Mata Hari" of North Korea, a temptress-spy who for years seduced secrets from South Korean military officers. The method was potentially lethal: Won Jeong Hwa reportedly plotted to assassinate South Korean agents with poisoned needles provided by handlers from Pyongyang. The 34-year-old North Korean native was arrested during the summer along with her 63-year-old stepfather and accused of seven years of espionage and deceit after defecting to...

Signed, Mata Hari By Yannick Murphy Little, Brown, 288 pages, $23.99 While the 19th Century made a "great game" of the imperial powers' secret struggles with one another, it remained for the 20th to transform espionage into a separate sphere of human existence, a parallel world governed by an aesthetic of betrayal. It might say something of other, more-intimate subversions of the inherited order that although the great treacheries of the last 100 years almost invariably were worked by men, the...

Signed, Mata Hari By Yannick Murphy Little, Brown, 288 pages, $23.99 While the 19th Century made a "great game" of the imperial powers' secret struggles with one another, it remained for the 20th to transform espionage into a separate sphere of human existence, a parallel world governed by an aesthetic of betrayal. It might say something of other, more-intimate subversions of the inherited order that although the great treacheries of the last 100 years almost invariably were worked by men, the...

On Oct. 15, 1844, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Rocken, Prussia. In 1914 the Clayton Anti-Trust Act was passed. In 1917 Mata Hari, the German spy, was shot by a firing squad outside Paris in World War I. In 1928 the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin made the first commercial flight across the Atlantic and landed in Lakehurst, N.J. In 1946 Nazi war criminal Herman Goering poisoned himself one day before he was to have...

We here at Five on Five find the term "mental midget" offensive. We prefer to be called "small-minded." Sign up at redeyechicago.com/fiveonfive. TOPIC 1: SOMEONE CALLED REX GROSSMAN A 'MENTAL MIDGET.' WHAT DO YOU SAY? Jimmy Greenfield: I don't mind that he's a mental midget. I mind that he's a Chicago Bear. Phillip Thompson: He has been cast in the next chapter of "Trapped in the Closet," so it must be true. Leo Ebersole: Yeah? Well, that guy ... probably smells like poo. Adam Caldarelli:...

By John M. Glionna and Youkyung Lee, TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS: Los Angeles Times | October 8, 2008

She's accused of being the "Mata Hari" of North Korea, a temptress-spy who for years seduced secrets from South Korean military officers. The method was potentially lethal: Won Jeong Hwa reportedly plotted to assassinate South Korean agents with poisoned needles provided by handlers from Pyongyang. The 34-year-old North Korean native was arrested during the summer along with her 63-year-old stepfather and accused of seven years of espionage and deceit after defecting to...

On July 25, 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to general of the Army -- the first officer to wear five stars. In 1907 Japan imposed a protectorate on Korea. In 1917 the Dutch spy Mata Hari was sentenced to death by a French court for spying for Germany during World War I. In 1934 Nazi Black Guard troops assassinated Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. In 1946 the U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific -- the first underwater test. In 1952 Puerto Rico became a...

On Aug. 7, 1782, George Washington established the Order of the Purple Heart. In 1876 Mata Hari, the World War I spy and courtesan, was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. In 1903 archaeologist and anthropologist Louis Leakey was born in Kabete, Kenya. In 1912 delegates at the Progressive Party's first national convention, held in Chicago, nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president. In 1934 the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling striking...

"Casino Royale," Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, was made into a movie long after versions of "Dr. No," "From Russia With Love," "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball" had set the film standard for 007's exploits. Critics around the world savaged "Casino Royale" and its spoofy approach to the Bond mythology. Here's how Tribune film critic Clifford Terry reviewed it on May 2, 1967: ---------- A long time ago there was this producer named Charles K. Feldman who obtained the film rights to the...

On July 25, 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to general of the Army -- the first officer to wear five stars. In 1907 Japan imposed a protectorate on Korea. In 1917 the Dutch spy Mata Hari was sentenced to death by a French court for spying for Germany during World War I. In 1934 Nazi Black Guard troops assassinated Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. In 1946 the U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific -- the first underwater test. In 1952 Puerto Rico became a...

We Americans really like wars. Have you noticed? There was the war to end all wars, the war against cancer and now the war on terror. Of course then there's the classic war, the battle of the sexes. This gender clash has been going on ever since men first wrote about how wily Eve tempted innocent Adam, how seductress Helen of Troy launched those thousand ships of war and how faithful males were monstrously deceived by the sensual likes of Queen Cleopatra and master spy Mata Hari.

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On Aug. 7, 1782, George Washington established the Order of the Purple Heart. In 1876 Mata Hari, the World War I spy and courtesan, was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. In 1903 archaeologist and anthropologist Louis Leakey was born in Kabete, Kenya. In 1912 delegates at the Progressive Party's first national convention, held in Chicago, nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president. In 1934 the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling striking...

We here at Five on Five find the term "mental midget" offensive. We prefer to be called "small-minded." Sign up at redeyechicago.com/fiveonfive. TOPIC 1: SOMEONE CALLED REX GROSSMAN A 'MENTAL MIDGET.' WHAT DO YOU SAY? Jimmy Greenfield: I don't mind that he's a mental midget. I mind that he's a Chicago Bear. Phillip Thompson: He has been cast in the next chapter of "Trapped in the Closet," so it must be true. Leo Ebersole: Yeah? Well, that guy ... probably smells like poo. Adam Caldarelli:...

She was the daughter of a British lord and an Indian princess, she told suitors, and counted among her many lovers the crown prince of Germany. She was Indonesian, she told others, and had learned her exotic dances in a Buddhist temple. With all her stories, veil upon veil, it was not hard for the French to believe the talk during her trial that this perfidious woman had bathed each day in fresh milk while soldiers on the front lines went thirsty. Or that her whispers were to blame...

We Americans really like wars. Have you noticed? There was the war to end all wars, the war against cancer and now the war on terror. Of course then there's the classic war, the battle of the sexes. This gender clash has been going on ever since men first wrote about how wily Eve tempted innocent Adam, how seductress Helen of Troy launched those thousand ships of war and how faithful males were monstrously deceived by the sensual likes of Queen Cleopatra and master spy Mata Hari.

On Oct. 15, 1844, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Rocken, Prussia. In 1914 the Clayton Anti-Trust Act was passed. In 1917 Mata Hari, the German spy, was shot by a firing squad outside Paris in World War I. In 1928 the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin made the first commercial flight across the Atlantic and landed in Lakehurst, N.J. In 1946 Nazi war criminal Herman Goering poisoned himself one day before he was to have...